New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-09
THE MIDNIGHT FIRE VICTIMS.
ONE DEAD NOW AND OTHERS MAY DIE.
TWENTY PERSONS BURNED IN THE TENEMENT
uorsrs-wuERE THE BLAME RESTS.

TWENTY PERSONS BURNED IN IhE ih>H1-'-
HoUsEs-wHERE THE BLAME RESTS
Persons who looked at the tenement houses NOS. ~
and IA Essex-st Yesterday expressed surprise tnat
the midnight fire had burned so many women ana
children The houses are four stories high but eacn
has separate stairway and fre-escapes both IN oh1
and in the rear They would pass as sale hapi'ao.e
under the regulations of the Buildings Bureau ana IL
woud he unfair 10 call them death traps when there
are so many worse tenementhouses In the city. ibc
explanation OF the trouble was the overcro"ahg Vi
the houses Most of the dwellings In the hebrew
quarter east of tho Bowery are full OF poor 1ames
one act of rooms frequently holding two or three fam
lilies of halt dozen persons each. 1t was dncult
task to get information about the families VINO had
occupied the Essexst houses yesterday, because the
rooms were still unnhabltable and the fam,iies nad
been scattered about the neighoorhood, Dut IL was sao
that each house had held about 100 persons There
was evidence of overcrowoing in all the rooms Filth
abonnded and millions OF bugs which had Deen dis-
,urbed by the flames but not injured were crawling
about the floors and walls Beds ana 0eddihg
almost filed some OF the rooms.
When the midnight alarm OF fire was gwen tue
crowd Of occupants so great on each hoor that
men, women and children were in each others way
The flames had got under full headway in the big BASE
mept bakery where the fires had been kept going all
the previous day to bake Passover bread ana smoke
quickly filled the upper stories Bewildered py the
smoke and heat, many of the women and children
tried to 60 down the stairway IN No. IL which was
soon fire. They were met, scorched ana driVeh
back by the flames. The freescapes, which ought 10
have been tried at the outset were soon filled by the
terror-sricken tenants Notwithstanding the imminent
peril a number of and women tried to save their
property in the rush. and they blocked uD tho balcon
les of the fre-escapes. Few made any attempt to
clothe themselves, but any had their arms full of
clothing when they got out OF the windows upon the
balconies The Eldridge-st. police and the occupants
OF the neghborng houses helped to rescue the families
from the burning houses before the remen we're sum-
moned..
All the occupants got out alive somehow but 1t was
not possible tell yesterday how many had been in
iured Itwas said that number who suffered from
slight burns and bruises had hidden themselves in the
homes friends to escape being sent to the hospitals
Only those whose injuries were believed TO be serious
were ioupd by the police and ambulance Surgeons after
the fire. AS yet only one OF the victims has died.
though Jour more are IN precarious condition. ana
twenty least will carry MARKS OF the re to their
graves. Gouverneur Hospital was the nearest to the
fire, and House Surgeon OHAnlon worked hard to re-
leve the sufferers. He made three trips with the am
pilal All night long his two assistants and two neigh
boring physicians were ministering to their wants
The ambulance from Bellevue took halt dozen people
10 that institution and as many more were treated at
the Eldrdge Street Police Station. Nearly every one
OF the sufferers burned about the face and It was
with difficulty that Of the children were identi-
fed 50 horribly they disfgured by the 1re Ihe
little girl who died, Kate Schuman. was taken to the
Morgae and lay there all the morning without being
identified In the afternoon her brother recognized
her. The same trouble was found In the case OF
Dorothea Cracore and Isaac Zimmerman The patients
hospital were transferred Bellevue yesterday and
made rs comfortable possible The following is
list OF the injured nearly as 1t could be MADE yes
tcrday:
scrMAy KATE ten burned badly about the head and
at 430 a. IN.
INJURED.
CE,coyE LYDIA age hythree burned severely about the
lace and body In a critical condition and may die
poEoE age aesn months 5se Sunea % nS
viii She not identified until late in the
CRcovE JACOB age thirteen burned slightly about the head
scM,y MARY age fortyour severely burned about the
and body. Her condition is critical, ,, ,.
the lace and body and her recovery is doubtful 49,
scBuMAy SARAH, age thirteen seriously bnfhe" about inc
scauNAN BrsEY age burned seriously about the head
KoriNsx axxAB. age forty seriously burned about the
ana body Ia is the burned about the face
Wrss REBEccA age hrtyree severely burned about lace
wEIss DAISY age Burned about the face and
body. ,,. 49,, hod.
RosEsBERG MogRs, age twenty three burned ABOUT he@u
,,, ,., 7, l.
fe8red he iunaed the hamcs and his recovery ~
GOuJttnl
In addition TO these the following had their burns
dressed AT the hospitals and station ana were sent
age thirteen Harris SambOr age iteen Lew Cracore,
age fity-three Rose Schuman, age twenty uenry
simon. age eight Adolph Rosenbcrger, age thirlS'
Lena Zlmnerman. age twenty eight, aud Craze Iin-
mernan, age two. .c RI. H..
age to the buildings less than $2,OOO ana 1t was
,a,d that the owner, Mrs. Havers, OF No. Z41 East
Broad ay, had insurance to the amount of TIo,Ooo
The combined losses OF the occupants including Baker
Levy, will not reach 81 900.